JPH01130260A - character processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently execute the document editing by constituting the title processor so that commands of a header, an underline, a uniform allocation, etc., which is connected to a character-string can be replaced with other command and an arbitrary character, or an arbitrary character-string can be replaced with a character-string to which the command is connected. CONSTITUTION:A memory 2 stores various editing information contained in a control program and document editing, and a magnetic disk 3 accumulates a document data. A data and an instruction at the time of document editing are inputted by a keyboard 4. In accordance with the instruction of this keyboard 4, a CPU 1 replaces commands of a header, an underline, a uniform allocation, etc., with other command and an arbitrary character, or replaces an arbitrary character-string with a character-string to which the command is connected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a character processing device that can input character data and give commands such as heading, underlining, equal allocation, etc. to the input character data.

[Prior Art] In conventional character processing devices, it has been possible to replace a specified character string in a document or a corresponding character string within a specified range with another character string.

However, it was not possible to replace commands (hereinafter referred to as commands) such as headings, underlines, and equal allocation that were applied to character strings, or to replace character strings with commands.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve] However,
Conventional replacement processing has the following drawbacks.

For example, if you want to change a highlighted text string with a larger font size to a heading string, or if you want to change all single-line underlines in a document to double-lined lines, first cancel the current command, After that, the process of setting the command you want to change had to be repeated for several character strings, which was extremely tedious and time-consuming. Also, if you use many of the same commands in a document, for example, if you want to create a document by adding emphasis points to all strings of characters, you will have to repeat the process of adding emphasis points to each string. This was also a very tedious task.

[Means for Solving the Problems (and Effects)] As a means for solving the above problems, the present invention includes, in addition to the conventional character string to character string replacement method.

O Replace the command with another command O Replace the character string between the command and the beginning and end of that command with a character string sandwiched between two arbitrary characters (hereinafter referred to as command replacement characters) O Conversely, command This allows three replacement methods to be performed, in which a string of characters sandwiched between replacement characters is replaced with a string of commands.

[Example] Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system that implements an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a CPU, 2 is a memory for storing a control program according to the flowchart No. 141J and various editing information during document editing, 3 is a magnetic disk for storing document data, and 4 is for data and instructions during document editing. This is a keyboard (hereinafter referred to as KB) for inputting. 5 is a display device for displaying various work screens (hereinafter referred to as windows), and 6 is a pointing device such as a mouse (hereinafter referred to as PD) for an operator to move a cursor.

FIG. 2 shows various information stored in memory during document editing. The editing header information section stores various information necessary for editing, such as the memory locations of various data such as character data and graphic data in the document being edited, and the input cursor position.

The format information section stores information regarding the format of the document, such as paper form information and plate information. The character data section stores character data and command data within the document, and the format information section and this character data section are JISC6226 0 character data stored as a document file on the magnetic disk.
One character is stored in 2-byte size in code. There are command data that contains character data, data that does not contain character data, and data that contains only one 2-byte code, etc., but command replacement targets only data that contains character data. , so only those commands will be described here. In a commanded string, there is a 2-byte code indicating the start at the beginning of the command, followed by the character code of the string, and a 2-byte code indicating the end at the end.

When there is a document as shown in FIG. 3, the character data section in memory is as shown in FIG. 4. In FIG. 4, the items enclosed in parentheses are command coats, and the others are character coats. “Data storage and management” in the document in Figure 3
The text is enlarged by the heading command and underlined by the underline command. 01 in FIG. 4 is a 2-byte code indicating the start of a heading, and C2, C3, and C4 indicate the start of an underline and the line type and line width of the underline.

9-character JISC6226 for “data storage and management” with heading commands and underline commands
The code continues from C5, followed by a code C6 indicating the end of the underline command and a code C7 indicating the end of the heading. The character code following "The created document", which has no commands, is stored from 08 next to the code indicating the end of the heading.

As in this example, it is also possible to overlap two or more commands by placing a character string containing the command between the start and end of the command.

The procedure for command replacement will be explained below.

When the operator instructs the start of command replacement processing, the fifth screen, in which all command names are displayed, appears on the screen.
A window as shown in the figure (hereinafter referred to as "command window"), a window with a field for inputting the command to be replaced (hereinafter search command m), a field for inputting the command to be replaced (hereinafter referred to as "replacement command field"), and a window for the operator to process. The sixth of the three methods of replacement, search, and -bracket replacement to indicate
A menu as shown in the figure is displayed.

In the case of replacing a command with a command> First, from the command window, select the command to be replaced in the search command field and the command to be replaced in the replacement command field using PD or KB and input it. Then, select the "Search" menu shown in FIG. Then, the command entered in the search command field is searched for in the document, and that part is highlighted. Next, select the “Replace” menu shown in Figure 6.
An example will be given in which a command input in the search command column of a highlighted portion of the document is replaced with a command input in the replacement command column.

In the document shown in Figure 3, enter an underline in the search command field, and enter the enclosing rule command with the line type and area specified in advance (the method of specification is omitted) in the replace command field from the command window (Fig. 5). . and"
Select the "Search" menu.Then, as shown in Figure 7, the underlined "Data Storage/Management" section will be highlighted.Next, select the "Replace" menu, as shown in Figure 8. , the underline is replaced with a border.

At this time, in memory, the underline start and end commands are found from the character data according to the instructions from the ``Search'' menu, those start and end commands are deleted according to the instructions from the ``Replace'' menu, and the commands are replaced with The enclosing line start command, line type/area information, and end command are inserted in the process.This flow is shown in FIG.

If you want to replace all commands in a document or all commands within a certain range with a certain command, for example, if you want to replace all the underline commands in the document in Figure 3 with the box command, do the following: .

After inputting in the search command field and the replacement command field in the same manner as in the above example, the range to be replaced is highlighted using PD or KB as shown in FIG. And in Figure 6 “
- Bracket Replacement" menu. Then, as shown in FIG. 11, the underlines drawn at "Data Storage/Management" and "Storage" can be replaced with enclosing lines. The processing on the memory at this time is to search for the start and end of underline from the character data section, and delete and insert it as shown in FIG.

This process is repeated.゛Replacement from command replacement characters to command〉In this case, enter the two characters to be used as command replacement characters in the search command field, and enter the characters you want to replace in the replacement command field as in the case of command to command replacement. Enter the command. The instructions below are similar to replacing commands with commands.

After specifying the search menu, specify the replace menu.

FIG. 12 is an example of using "!" and "$" as command substitution characters. If you want to add an overline to ``Save and manage data'', enter ``!'' in the search command field. "and"
Enter the two characters "$" and the overline command in the replace command field. Then, by instructing the search menu and then the replace menu, you will see "!" as shown in Figure 13. ”
The “$” disappears and the “Data storage and management” section is overlined.

- bracket replacement processing is also possible using the same operation as when replacing commands with commands.

In this case, the character string sandwiched between "!" and "$" is first searched for in memory. Then, delete "!" and insert the start, line type, and line width codes of the overline command in its place, and delete "$" and insert the end code of the overline command in its place. - When performing bracket replacement, this process is repeated.

Replacing a command with a command replacement character> In this case, the procedure for replacing a command replacement character with a command is completely reversed.

In other words, enter the command to be replaced in the search command field, enter the two characters for command replacement in the replace command field, specify the search menu and then the replace menu. 0 The command to be replaced in the highlighted part is no longer 1 Instead, the first character of the command replacement characters input in the replacement command field is inserted at the start position of the command, and the second character is inserted at the end position. Similar to the previous substitutions, -bracket substitution is also possible.

The normal replacement procedure is shown in the flowchart of FIG.
First, in step S1, a command to be replaced using PD or KB or a character for command replacement is specified in the search command column from the command window shown in FIG. Next, in step S2, the command to be replaced or the command replacement character is specified in the replacement command column. In step S3, the search menu shown in FIG. 7 is designated as PD or KB. In step S4, if what is specified in the search command field is a command, the process moves to step S5, and if it is a command replacement character, the process moves to step S6. In step S5, the start code and end code of the command specified in the search command field are searched from the character data section on the memory. I'm looking for a code. In step S6, a part where other character codes are sandwiched between the first and second character codes specified in the search command field is searched from the character data section on the memory.
In the above example of replacing command replacement characters with commands, the part between “!” is highlighted on the display screen.In step S8, specify the replacement menu shown in Fig. 7 using PD or KB.In step S9, if the command specified in the search field is , if it is a command replacement character, move to step Sll.Step SI
In O, the command start search found in step S5
Delete the exit code from the character code section in memory. In step Sll, the command replacement character found in S6 is also deleted.

In step S12, if the replacement command field specified in step S2 is a command, the process moves to step S13, and if the command replacement character is the character, the process moves to step S14. In step S13, the start code of the command specified in the replacement command column is replaced with the start code of the command deleted by SIO or
Insert at the first character position of the command replacement and replacement character deleted with l. Similarly, the end code is inserted at the end code deleted by sio or at the entire position of the second character deleted by Sll.

In the example of replacing commands with commands, the start code and end code of the box command are inserted.

In step S14, the command replacement characters are inserted into the deleted positions as in S13. In the example of replacing command replacement characters with commands, the start and end codes of the overline command are inserted in the parts where the "!" and "$" codes have been deleted, respectively.

Normal command replacement is performed using the above steps.

[Other Embodiments] By inputting a command in the search command column and performing the straddle process without inputting anything in the replacement command column, the command can be deleted. By not inputting anything in the replacement command column, the process ends up to Sl in FIG. 14, and as a result, the command can be deleted.

Furthermore, if the above process is performed as a batch replacement, it is possible to eliminate all specified commands in a document or within a certain range.

〔Effect of the invention〕

By using the command replacement method described above, very efficient document editing can be achieved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a system that realizes this embodiment, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing document editing information in this embodiment, Figs. 3, 7, 8, 10 [g, 11] ,
FIGS. 12 and 13 are diagrams showing documents displayed on the screen, and FIGS. 4 and 9 are diagrams showing the state on the memory of this embodiment. 5 and 6 are diagrams showing screen displays of this embodiment, and FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the procedure of this embodiment. In the figure, 1 is the CPU, 2 is the memory, 3 is the magnetic disk, 4
is a keyboard, 5 is a display device, and 6 is a pointing device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] For a certain character string in a document or for all relevant character strings within a specified range, commands such as headings, underlining, equal allocation, etc. applied to that character string can be executed using other commands or arbitrary commands. A character processing device characterized in that it can replace characters or arbitrary character strings with commanded character strings.